All persons of the age of 18 years who are under no legal disability, and all persons who have been declared emancipated pursuant to NRS 129.080 to 129.140, inclusive, are capable of entering into any contract, and are, to all intents and purposes, held and considered to be of lawful age.
NRS 129.010
Age of majority
Applied in 12 court decisions — leading case Manning v. Warden, Nevada State Prison (1983)
Most recently applied in LOFTHOUSE (JASON) VS. STATE (July 2020)
[1:19:1861; B § 323; BH § 4943; C § 5000; RL § 431; NCL § 300]—(NRS A 1971, 455; 1973, 1578; 1987, 1281)
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: Nevada Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Nevada statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.